Friday, November 09, 2007

I might well be accused of the same thing. Usually my cleaning and lubing treatment includes some type of gun scrubber compound and Hoppe's No. 9 gun oil. And if you've ever used that stuff you know it can get to be pretty messy. I lube and rub down my guns with it after every time I take them out. I tried something different with the Dan Wesson when I got it, out of sheer necessity because I was out of cleaning stuff and they didn't have what I normally used. I'd heard good things about BreakFree CLP, so I thought I'd pick some up. I'll admit it's pretty good at cleaning, but I am now not so sure about its lubrication abilities, at least on the Razorback; the first couple of times I took it out I experienced a couple or failures to return to battery and it seemed the slide was catching on something as the pistol was going back into battery. I had not had any experience with CLP before and I remembered thinking that it seemed a lot drier than the Hoppe's oil. So I thought I'd go back to the way I've done it with my other guns, and I picked up some Hoppe's No. 9 oil and Birchwood Casey Gun Scrubber last week to try out. I ran the RZ-10 through the cleaning and oiling process with it and took it out Monday with some more Remington UMC and it worked just fine -- no kinds of issues whatsoever. Well, I did have a couple of issues of the slide locking back before I emptied the pistol, but that's about it, and the best I can tell that one was just user error. ;-) I was still getting low velocity with the UMC, though; it was still running about 100 fps slower than the advertised 1150 fps. I don't know if that's the gun or the ammo, but I do have now about 150 rounds of once-fired UMC nickel-plated brass and a fresh batch of CCI large pistol primers. I've had good luck with the CCI primers before vs. the Remington primers. Should be fun to see what happens. I'll be developing some more loads this weekend.

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About Me

I am a very opinionated guy, Texan and quite proud of it. I lean toward the right politically but have a few libertarian tendencies that my conservative brothers and sisters might not agree with. I like guns, old country music and a lot of other things.

Essential Reading

False is the idea of utility that sacrifices a thousand real advantages for one imaginary or trifling inconvenience; that would take fire from men because it burns, and water because one may drown in it; that has no remedy for evils, except destruction. The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Can it be supposed that those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity, the most important of the code, will respect the less important and arbitrary ones, which can be violated with ease and impunity, and which, if strictly obeyed, would put an end to personal liberty -- so dear to men, so dear to the enlightened legislator -- and subject innocent persons to all the vexations that the guilty alone ought to suffer? Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.-- Cesare Beccaria, in On Crimes And Punishments, later quoted by Thomas Jefferson

Echo

The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.-- Alexander Hamilton